Optimizing and backing up a catalog

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of heading up the Adobe headquarters and…meeting with some of the Lightroom team.…One of things that I discovered through that meeting is that a lot of the…improvements in Lightroom 3 are things that are happening behind the scenes.…It's the overall engine and some of the things that really help Lightroom…operate and run quickly.…So one of the things that you're going to experience is this overall…improvement in regards to speed.…One of the reasons why Lightroom runs faster is because the catalogs are better.…We also have a few little tips here that can help us work even more…efficiently with our catalogs.…

One of the things that you need to do quite often is back up your catalog.…Your catalog contains all these different types of information about your images.…So you want to save that quite often.…You can modify how often you save this by going to your Lightroom pulldown menu…and choosing Catalog Settings.…Then I'll make sure that I have clicked on the General tab.…

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6/11/2010

In Photoshop Lightroom 3 New Features, photographer and author Chris Orwig explores the enhancements that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 brings to each phase of the photographic workflow—from importing and editing, to exporting and publishing. This course details Lightroom 3's new importing and asset-management features and its significant improvements in the Develop module, including enhanced sharpening and noise reduction. Chris also shows how Lightroom 3 broadens output options, and shares workflow tips and advice for upgrading Lightroom 2 catalogs and working with images processed in earlier Lightroom versions. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Importing and managing photos and video clips

Improving efficiency with enhanced collections

Applying sharpening and noise reduction

Mastering the enhanced adjustment brush, graduated filter, and vignette features